Works of art from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean range from ancient cultures to cutting-edge artists of today. Among the highlights are the Glassell Collection of Pre-Columbian Gold and the museum’s growing collection of modern and contemporary art by Latin American and Latino artists.

José Gurvich was a member of the Taller Torres-García founded in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1944. The workshop sought to stimulate younger artists on the continent of South America to create art that was not derivative of European movements but instead based on principles of a Constructive Universalism that would capture the essence of the Native American spirit. In Gurvich's black-and-white forms, hybrid modes of Geometric Abstraction result from structural principles of the grid combined with vernacular motifs.